Mid-Atlantic Gleaning Network, Newsletter Winter 2006

One of
MAGNET’S
farmers made
an offer of a
quantity of
white pine
trees IF we
could cut and transport them to our distribution sites .
Here it was only twelve days
until Christmas.
One of our two trucks
was out of service.
We would need persons with...
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One of
MAGNET’S
farmers made
an offer of a
quantity of
white pine
trees IF we
could cut and transport them to our distribution sites .
Here it was only twelve days
until Christmas.
One of our two trucks
was out of service.
We would need persons with experience using chain saws
who would be available on Saturday to
cut the trees, snake them out from among
the remaining trees without damaging
them or the remaining trees, load them
onto our truck, deliver them to our warehouse in Cheltenham until they could be
transported to sites in the D.
C.
and Baltimore areas, set up delivery sites with persons to help unload the trees when they
arrived at the sites, etc.
, etc.
—all within a
four day (including Sunday) period.
Our
fearless leader (Tom Chandler, the Executive Director) presented this logistical
nightmare to our very small staff who
agreed that a Christmas Tree giveaway
would not only be a grand gesture—they
said “We will do it! It will be done!”
Each staff member on the telephone
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